Spectroscopic photoacoustic microscopy using a photonic crystal fiber supercontinuum source

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18519-18524

  Billeh, Yazan N ^a   Liu, Mengyang ^b   Buma, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS;

COMPACT SIZE; EN-FACE IMAGING; FIXED WAVELENGTH; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; IMAGE CONTRASTS; MICROCHIP LASERS; MULTIWAVELENGTH; ND:YAG MICROCHIP LASERS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL FOCUSING; OPTICAL SOURCE; Q-SWITCHED; REPETITION RATE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA; TUNABLE BANDPASS FILTER; TUNABLE SOURCE; WAVELENGTH BAND; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COTTON; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACOUSTICS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GOSSYPIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 77956369255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018519     Document Type: Article

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